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The Importance of Narrative in Startup Marketing @ CSUF Startup Incubator
Joe Burke has been a marketing executive for decades for companies including Disney and Goodwill. In this talk, Joe will talk about the archetypal narratives that every successful marketer must know and be familiar with. He will draw on his experiences as a marketing executive and as a writer to explain what the different archetypes…
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Meet The Three Finalists for the CSUF Business Plan Competition
The CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals are coming next week! [Register now!] It promises to be an interesting look into what our student-entrepreneurs are capable of. Starting at noon on Thursday, 4/7 in Pavilion A of the Titan Student Union we open up registration and host an Innovation Fair where we will showcase the projects…
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Call for CSUF Biotech and Business Teams – Funds are Available
The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program is offering grants of $2,500 (and potentially much more to excellent student teams!) to student teams working on the commercialization of biotechnology. Each student team needs at least one member with experience working with the biotech and they also need members majoring or with experience in business. Applications are…
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How to Pitch to an Investment Panel @ CSUF Startup Incubator
This Wednesday, March 23, at 6pm at the CSUF Startup Incubator Director Jackson will be giving a talk about how to give the best pitch for your business to an investment panel. What topics should you cover? How many slides should you include in your deck? How many people from your team should actively participate…
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Sigma Upsilon Mu's 8 Hour Business Challenge at Cal State Fullerton
Sigma Upsilon Mu is the most active student group dedicated to entrepreneurship on the Cal State Fullerton campus and just a few days ago they held a great competition called the 8 Hour Business Challenge. This competition was open to university students from all across the area and required an amazing amount of work from…
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Phillip Stinis will be a Keynote Speaker at Phi Kappa Phi Event
If you’re a current CSUF student there’s a decent chance that Phillip Stinis has come to your classroom to talk about the CSUF Startup Incubator. In a couple of weeks, he, along with Karla Amador of Thrive Financial (and a sponsor of a CSUF Entrepreneurship scholarship), will be the keynote speakers at an important national…
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Summer Internship with Big Arms Swimmers
Company: Big Arms Swimmers Office Location: Fullerton, CA Description of tasks: Assist in all tasks related to the organization of swim lessons. Duties such as: hiring instructors, managing instructors, customer service, sales, accounting, bookkeeping, etc. Pay for Position: Expected pay for entire summer between $10,000 and $25,000. Expected Hours: April: 10 Hours a week May:…
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CSUF Startup Incubator Resident KIDnetic Energy Labs will bring STEM/STEAM Education to Students
You have heard of STEM, right? Maybe even STEAM? If you think these are acronyms for something science- or technology-related then you’re on the right track. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and the A in STEAM stands for Art (the other letters have the same meanings in STEAM as they do in…
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Entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talks to CSUF Entrepreneurship Students
Recently, we were lucky enough to have serial entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talk to one of Director Jackson’s classes. Mr. Kovacs talked on many different facets of what he sees as crucial components of his success as an entrepreneur and what follows are the top 10 notes taken from Mr. Kovacs’ talk by CSUF Entrepreneur student…
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Irvine Eyed for CSUF Startup Incubator Expansion
If you get the Orange County Business Journal [SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED] you might have seen an article about the planned expansion of the CSUF Startup Incubator into Irvine and we couldn’t be more thrilled about the prospect. Right now, we are thinking that the Irvine expansion will open its doors in September (of this year) but…